Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tray of food sits there, untouched. Every once in a while, the hunger striker steals a glance at it. After the first week, the servings seem enlarged to a ravenous man, the beans huge, the scones puffed up. His sense of smell is also more acute; he can detect the kind of food almost before it arrives. The breakfast tray waits until lunch, lunch stays until dinner, and dinner remains all night long. British authorities say they have the obligation to keep food always available. The prisoners consider the practice taunting and cruel...
...cream tasting is a notoriously erratic business. Not only subjectivity but sheer numbness is a problem. "Your taste buds get so cold they barely function on about the eighth lick," I.A.I.C.M. Spokesman Witte explains. "Your nose still works O.K., but ice cream doesn't smell much...
...Colonel smiled. He looked around him at Huntington Avenue and tapped his cane on the ground. In the night air you could smell a bit of the sea from the Harbor...
...ground, the other two-had come ripping down amid a crowd of 1,500 dancers. As the debris cascaded to the floor, broken glass flew like shrapnel. Nor did the chaos end with the horrifying collapse. Water from broken pipes gushed out over the bodies and rubble, and the smell of escaping natural gas wafted through the vaulting half-acre hotel lobby, adding to the fears of fire and explosion. "People kept screaming names, all sorts of names, trying to find a friend or a wife or a son," recounted Kansas City Star Sportswriter Mike McKenzie...
...November 1980, residents of the Denver suburb of Northglenn began noticing the pungent smell of gasoline throughout their homes. Explosions began lifting 200-lb. manhole covers off the ground. An investigation showed that the gas had leaked from the underground tanks of a nearby Chevron service station and found its way into the water table as well as sewer lines serving six residential blocks. Forty-one families in the area, which residents dubbed "Gasoline Alley," sued Chevron for damages. Last week the oil company settled out of court for what could amount to a record $6 million -about three times...